Phase II study of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with surgically-proven, unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6 B, 2002, Pages 3519-3524

  Grossi, F ^a   Pennucci, M C ^b   Serrano, J ^b   Frola, C ^c   Mereu, C ^b   Scolaro, T ^b   Ratto, G B ^d   Tixi, L ^b   Ardizzoni, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Evangelico Hospital Genova   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combined treatment; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Non small cell lung cancer; NSCLC staging; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; NAVELBINE; VINBLASTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOPERABLE CANCER; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHLEBITIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; THORACOTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0036875081     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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